Subject: Announcement: conference IAFP 1998
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:35:44 -0100

                      International Association for Forensic
                                 Phonetics (IAFP)


                              1998 Annual Conference


                             Voorburg, The Netherlands
                                   5-9 July 1998


                              First Announcement and
                                     Call for Papers







                             Gerechtelijk Laboratorium
                          van het Ministerie van Justitie

IAFP
The International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP) was formally
established in York, England, in 1991. It seeks to foster research and
provide a forum for the interchange of ideas and information on
practice, development and research in forensic phonetics as well as to
set down and enforce standards of professional conduct and procedure for
those involved in forensic phonetic casework. For membership and other
information, please contact dr. Dagmar Boss, Landeskriminalamt Bayern,
Maillingerstr. 15, 80636 Muenchen, Germany.

Major topics
Papers and posters are invited on speaker identification, speaker
profiling, earwitness identification, transcription of disputed
utterances, tape enhancement, tape authentication and other related
forensic phonetic issues.

Special sessions
There will be two special sessions with invited speakers. One will be
devoted to the Role of the Expert Witness and the Status of (Forensic
Phonetic) Expertise in the light of the Starzecpyzel ruling and related
issues like the Daubert criteria and the use of Bayesian statistics, and
will be concluded with a forum discussion. In the second special session
invited speakers will report on recent trends in automatic speaker
verification and its implications for forensic speaker identification.

Submission of papers
IAFP 1998 will welcome all contributions in the areas listed above.
Three copies of a summary not exceeding 300 words should be sent to the
Conference Secretariat by April 10, 1998. All contributions will be
refereed by the Scientific Committee.

Student Papers
A prize will be awarded for the best student paper.

Publication
A number of Conference papers will be selected by the Scientific
Committee for publication in Forensic Linguistics: The International
Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Conference Venue and Accommodation 
IAFP 1998 will be held at Hotel Moevenpick in Voorburg, which is situated
opposite the railway station and just off the A12 motorway. The city of
Voorburg is part of the larger The Hague conurbation. There is a good
train service from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Voorburg, via The Hague
Central railway station. There are tram and bus services to The Hague,
Scheveningen and Delft.

Language
The official language of the conference will be English.

Exhibition
A scientific exhibition will be held during the conference. It is open
to companies and research institutions.

Organizing Committee
Ton Broeders
Simo Goddijn
Jos Bouten
Angelique Thoen
Jan Willem van Eijk

Registration Fees
Fees include coffee/tea during session breaks, all lunches, a reception,
transportation, the conference outing and dinner as well as
accommodation from Sunday evening to Thursday (4 nights) in the Moevenpick
Hotel.

                Before 30/4     After 30/4
IAFP Members    Hfl. 1000       Hfl. 1150
Non-members     Hfl. 1100       Hfl. 1200

Please note that alternative hotel accomodation will be very difficult
to arrange.

Additional nights will be booked on request and if available.

Students may, if they wish, register for conference participation only
(coffee/tea breaks during sessions only) for a fee of Hfl. 150.

Conference Secretariat
For all correspondence for the conference please use the following
address:

IAFP Conference Secretariat
National Forensic Science Laboratory
Volmerlaan 17
2288 GD RIJSWIJK
The Netherlands

tel:    +31 70 413 5340/5349
fax:    +31 70 413 5450
e-mail: iafp98@holmes.nl         

For updates of IAFP 98 information see http://zeno.simplenet.com

International Scientific Committee
Angelika Braun (Germany)
Toni Rietveld (Netherlands)
Jens-Peter Koester (Germany)
Jos Bouten (Netherlands)

Important Dates
10 April  Abstracts due
1 May     Higher registration fees apply
15 May    Notification of acceptance
5-9 July  Conference



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Registration Form

IAFP Annual Conference 5-9 July 1998

Name:
Affiliation:
Address:
Phone:
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I would like to register for the 1998 Annual Conference of IAFP as a
[ ]    regular participant
[ ]    student (please supply evidence of status)
[ ]    I am a member of IAFP

I would like to present a paper entitled:


[ ]    I will pay cash on site (N.B.: reduced rates apply only if registration is received
       by March 30, 1998)
[ ]    I am enclosing a cheque made out to IAFP 1998

Please complete this form and post or fax it no later than 30 March 1998 to:

IAFP Conference Secretariat
Forensic Science Laboratory
Volmerlaan 17
2288 GD RIJSWIJK
The Netherlands